Senior Data Scientist Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Scientist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Data Scientist salary in the UK excluding London is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 687 683 776
Rank change year-on-year -4 +93 -100
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Scientist 93 45 98
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.081% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.092% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 70 38 45
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,813 £53,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,063 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £67,572
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -3.81% +21.20%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,125 £81,250
90th Percentile £90,654 £88,750 £99,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £67,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +14.81% -15.63% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Data Scientist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Senior Data Scientist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Scientist in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Scientist
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Scientist in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior Data Scientist in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Scientist
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Scientist in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Scientist in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Scientist
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Data Scientist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +21 21 £75,000 +15.38% 5
South West -34 21 £77,500 +32.05% 2
Midlands -23 18 £57,500 -34.29% 3
West Midlands +3 17 £57,500 -34.29%
North West -15 14 £60,000 -11.11% 5
South East -20 14 £62,922 -3.20% 10
East of England +1 13 £80,000 +6.67%
Yorkshire +68 7 £75,000 +27.66%
Scotland -65 6 £81,677 -24.02% 1
East Midlands - 1 £85,000 - 3
Senior Data Scientist
UK

Senior Data Scientist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Senior Data Scientist job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Senior Data Scientist in the job title.

1 93 (100.00%) Data Science
2 82 (88.17%) Python
3 70 (75.27%) Machine Learning
4 55 (59.14%) SQL
5 42 (45.16%) Degree
6 35 (37.63%) Social Skills
7 34 (36.56%) PhD
8 31 (33.33%) Agile
9 30 (32.26%) Analytics
10 29 (31.18%) Statistical Modelling
11 27 (29.03%) R
12 26 (27.96%) Algorithms
12 26 (27.96%) Artificial Intelligence
13 24 (25.81%) Data Analysis
13 24 (25.81%) Master's Degree
14 23 (24.73%) Finance
15 20 (21.51%) Business Intelligence
15 20 (21.51%) Natural Language Processing
15 20 (21.51%) Decision-Making
16 19 (20.43%) Pandas
16 19 (20.43%) Statistics
17 18 (19.35%) Azure
18 17 (18.28%) Visualisation
18 17 (18.28%) Data Structures
19 16 (17.20%) Decision Tree
19 16 (17.20%) Technical Leadership
19 16 (17.20%) Banking
20 15 (16.13%) Computer Science
20 15 (16.13%) Use Case
20 15 (16.13%) Random Forest

Senior Data Scientist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.30%) SAS
2 1 (1.08%) Apache
2 1 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.08%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.08%) Luigi
Applications
1 6 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (19.35%) Azure
2 14 (15.05%) Power Platform
3 13 (13.98%) GCP
4 7 (7.53%) SaaS
5 2 (2.15%) AWS
6 1 (1.08%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.08%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.05%) Power BI
2 13 (13.98%) Big Data
3 4 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.30%) Tableau
4 3 (3.23%) Metadata
4 3 (3.23%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.15%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.08%) Base SAS
6 1 (1.08%) Bigtable
6 1 (1.08%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.08%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.08%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (1.08%) Redis
6 1 (1.08%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.08%) RethinkDB
6 1 (1.08%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 11 (11.83%) Git
2 1 (1.08%) Subversion
General
1 35 (37.63%) Social Skills
2 23 (24.73%) Finance
3 16 (17.20%) Banking
4 14 (15.05%) Pharmaceutical
5 9 (9.68%) Law
6 8 (8.60%) Games
7 7 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (4.30%) Marketing
9 3 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.15%) Legal
10 2 (2.15%) Retail
11 1 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.43%) Pandas
2 7 (7.53%) XGBoost
3 5 (5.38%) PySpark
3 5 (5.38%) PyTorch
3 5 (5.38%) TensorFlow
4 3 (3.23%) NumPy
4 3 (3.23%) scikit-learn
5 2 (2.15%) Keras
5 2 (2.15%) SpaCy
6 1 (1.08%) Django
6 1 (1.08%) EDI
6 1 (1.08%) Flask
6 1 (1.08%) NLTK
6 1 (1.08%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (1.08%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 26 (27.96%) Algorithms
2 17 (18.28%) Data Structures
3 8 (8.60%) Life Science
3 8 (8.60%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (7.53%) Reinsurance
5 5 (5.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.08%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.08%) Grid Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (100.00%) Data Science
2 70 (75.27%) Machine Learning
3 31 (33.33%) Agile
4 30 (32.26%) Analytics
5 29 (31.18%) Statistical Modelling
6 26 (27.96%) Artificial Intelligence
7 24 (25.81%) Data Analysis
8 20 (21.51%) Business Intelligence
8 20 (21.51%) Decision-Making
8 20 (21.51%) Natural Language Processing
9 19 (20.43%) Statistics
10 17 (18.28%) Visualisation
11 16 (17.20%) Decision Tree
11 16 (17.20%) Technical Leadership
12 15 (16.13%) Computer Science
12 15 (16.13%) Random Forest
12 15 (16.13%) Use Case
13 14 (15.05%) Data Visualisation
13 14 (15.05%) LLM
13 14 (15.05%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 82 (88.17%) Python
2 55 (59.14%) SQL
3 27 (29.03%) R
4 2 (2.15%) Julia
5 1 (1.08%) C
5 1 (1.08%) C#
5 1 (1.08%) C++
5 1 (1.08%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 42 (45.16%) Degree
2 34 (36.56%) PhD
3 24 (25.81%) Master's Degree
4 6 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.23%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.08%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.15%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (10.75%) Databricks
2 8 (8.60%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.15%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.08%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.08%) Google
4 1 (1.08%) Oracle
4 1 (1.08%) Sun